Biographie & Autobiographie / Mémoires

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

de Eben, M.D. Alexander

A SCIENTIST’S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE

Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben...

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)

de Jenny Lawson

Includes a new chapter!

When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open...

Lifeguarding: A Memoir of Secrets, Swimming, and the South

de Catherine Mccall

In her sharply observed and ultimately redemptive memoir, Catherine McCall paints a vivid and sometimes heartbreaking portrait of growing up in a complicated Southern family, whose perfect façade hides crippling...

A Stolen Life: A Memoir

de Jaycee Dugard

In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.

For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object...

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

de E.B. Sledge

“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific—the terror, the camaraderie,...

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

de Elizabeth Gilbert

This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success...

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

de Sheryl Sandberg

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices...

Survival in the Killing Fields

de Haing Ngor

Best known for his academt award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia....

Happy: A Memoir

de Alex Lemon

His freshman year of college, Alex Lemon was supposed to be the star catcher on the Macalester College baseball team. He was the boy getting every girl, the hard-partying kid everyone called Happy. In the spring...

The Woman I Am

de Helen Reddy

The Woman I Am is an incredibly inspiring autobiography by Helen Reddy, the woman who made "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar" a household phrase. With her song "I Am Woman," Reddy provided the feminist anthem of the...

I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids

de Jen Kirkman

"You'll Change Your Mind."

That’s what everyone says to Jen Kirkman— and countless women like her—when she confesses she doesn’t plan to have children. But you know what? It’s hard enough to be an...

Lifesaving Lessons: Notes from an Accidental Mother

de Linda Greenlaw

Famed swordfish boat captain Linda Greenlaw faces her greatest battle with nature—a newly adopted teenage daughter

Linda Greenlaw isn’t a woman who shies away from a challenge—a nationally renowned swordfish...

Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church

de Lauren Drain & Lisa Pulitzer

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER You've likely heard of the Westboro Baptist Church. Perhaps you've seen their pickets on the news, the members holding signs with messages that are too offensive to copy here,...

Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir

de Eddie Huang

“Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He’s bigger than food.”—Anthony Bourdain

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Eddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus—the hot...

Tomorrow I'm Dead:How a 17-year old Killing Field Survivor became the Cambodian Freedom Army's Greatest Soldier

de Bun Yom

After three years as a killing field slave, seventeen-year-old Bun Yom escaped from the Khmer Rouge and became a "Freedom Fighter." Using his wisdom, courage, and unprecedented compassion, Bun rescued thousands...

I Was That Masked Man

de Clayton Moore & Frank Thompson

Every baby boomer in America knows who that masked man was. He was mysterious and mythic at the same time, the epitome of the American hero: compassionate, honest, patriotic, inventive, an unswerving champion...

Paris: A Love Story

de Kati Marton

This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris.

PARIS: A LOVE STORY

is for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended.

In this remarkably honest and candid...

Man-Eaters, Mambas And Marula Madness: A Game Ranger'S Life In The Lowveld

de Mario Cesare

What started as a vision for the Olifants River Game Reserve [in South Africa] has become the story of a game ranger’s life. With a naturalist’s eye for detail as well as the bigger picture of managing...

The Dog With Nine Lives

de Della Galton

Lindy, the Dog with Nine Lives, is the true story of a little brown dog from Rhodes whose ‘rags to riches’ tale will warm the hearts of dog lovers everywhere.

Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia

de Carmen Bin Ladin

Osama bin Laden's former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually inti- mate look into Saudi soci-ety and the bin Laden family's role within it, as well as the treatment of Saudi women. On September 11th,...